VOB files are MPEG2 program streams. They CONTAIN multiple
ELEMENTARY streams which contain things like, audio, video,
subtitles and other special things.

That being said I think a high end authoring application will
support loading of an MPEG2 program stream (VOB) file. But,
as you've pointed out Architect among others do not. This means
the file has to be split in its elementary streams (the video and
AC3 stream in this case). This is called de-muxing. The authoring
application will then re-mux these together for final authoring.

So can you split these files WITHOUT any re-encoding or quality
loss? Yes you can.

Go to www.doom9.org site and then into the Downloads.
Then go to the end of the page into the VOB Tools section. You
will find some tools there. Try them out and tell us if it worked.

The tools should be able to get you a .M2V (video) & .AC3 (audio)
file.

Insert a VELOCITY ENVELOPE into the clip you are working on, pull it all the way down to -100%

Reversing a clip is VERY easy as long as you follow one simple rule: START at the END.

Just play the timeline and then STOP where you want the reversing to begin (i.e. at the END of the clip in forward motion). Now press "S" to split this clip at that point, add the velocity envelope t0 the RIGHT clip (you can delete the left side of the split) and change the velocity to a negative value.

Every wedding I do is a 2 camera ceremony. When I switched to Vegas life got easy, when I started using Excalibur life got great.
Now if I could just get my dog to understand the basics of editing life would be simply superb ;-)
Don

Cool, I was hoping it was Vegas. Well, it is kind of software specific since Vegas 4.0 has more color correction tools then some other software. There's a couple ways to do this, the easiest way would be to just use the "color correction" video effect, and mess around with them, make it more blue in the mids, or whatever looks right, or you can use the "color curves" also, and just tweak them yourself, basically take out some red and give it some more blue, etc etc....

There's some more involved techniques for stuff like this that I use sometimes in Vegas, but i'd have to write up a article for that. :D

I do listen to alex, he has already proven to me he knows what he talks about. I didn't mean to offend him.. What I mean by software specific was, whatever program I use I need to color correct. I know vegas is a good program for this.. I fiddled around with the colorcorrect but didn't get it as good as I liked it to be. So I thought I'd post here to get additional ideas on how to slove my problem.